Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Richard Adler |
Songwriter |
3-Aug-1921 |
21-Jun-2012 |
Damn Yankees |
Lance Alworth |
Football |
3-Aug-1940 |
|
NFL Hall of Famer, "Bambi" |
Adrienne Ames |
Actor |
3-Aug-1907 |
31-May-1947 |
You're Telling Me! |
Ian Bairnson |
Guitarist |
3-Aug-1953 |
|
Guitarist for The Alan Parsons Project |
Stanley Baldwin |
Head of State |
3-Aug-1867 |
14-Dec-1947 |
UK Prime Minister three times |
Rod Beck |
Baseball |
3-Aug-1968 |
23-Jun-2007 |
MLB relief pitcher |
Angela Beesley |
Business |
3-Aug-1977 |
|
Co-Founder of Wikia, Inc. |
Tony Bennett |
Singer |
3-Aug-1926 |
|
Left his heart in San Francisco |
Steven Berkoff |
Actor |
3-Aug-1937 |
|
London Theatre Group |
Tom Brady |
Football |
3-Aug-1977 |
|
New England Patriots QB |
Sid Bream |
Baseball |
3-Aug-1960 |
|
Former MLB first baseman |
Rupert Brooke |
Poet |
3-Aug-1887 |
23-Apr-1915 |
1914 and Other Poems |
Butterbean |
Boxing |
03-Aug-1966 |
|
365 pound boxer in Jackass: The Movie |
Hayden Carruth |
Poet |
3-Aug-1921 |
29-Sep-2008 |
Brothers, I Loved You All |
Philip Casnoff |
Actor |
3-Aug-1949 |
|
Dr. Robert Jackson on Strong Medicine |
Ingrid Caven |
Actor |
3-Aug-1938 |
|
In a Year of 13 Moons |
Walter van Tilburg Clark |
Novelist |
3-Aug-1909 |
10-Nov-1971 |
The Ox-Bow Incident |
Joan Claybrook |
Activist |
3-Aug-1938 |
|
Public Citizen |
Alfred Deakin |
Head of State |
3-Aug-1856 |
7-Oct-1919 |
2nd Prime Minister of Australia |
Dolores del Rio |
Actor |
3-Aug-1905 |
11-Apr-1983 |
Flying Down to Rio |
William K. L. Dickson |
Inventor |
3-Aug-1860 |
28-Sep-1935 |
Motion picture camera |
Marcel Dionne |
Hockey |
3-Aug-1951 |
|
NHL Hall of Famer |
Lucky Dube |
Singer |
3-Aug-1964 |
18-Oct-2007 |
South African reggae star |
Christine M. Durham |
Judge |
3-Aug-1945 |
|
Utah Chief Justice |
Michael Ealy |
Actor |
3-Aug-1973 |
|
Barbershop |
John Erman |
Film Director |
3-Aug-1935 |
|
Scarlett |
Hamilton Fish |
Politician |
3-Aug-1808 |
7-Sep-1893 |
US Secretary of State, 1869-77 |
Jon Foster |
Actor |
3-Aug-1984 |
|
Damien Cutler on Windfall |
Andrés Gimeno |
Tennis |
3-Aug-1937 |
|
Winner, 1972 French Open |
Alex Grass |
Business |
3-Aug-1927 |
27-Aug-2009 |
Founder of Rite Aid |
Mamie Gummer |
Actor |
3-Aug-1983 |
|
Daughter of Meryl Streep |
Molly Hagan |
Actor |
3-Aug-1961 |
|
Angel on Herman's Head |
Jean Hagen |
Actor |
3-Aug-1923 |
29-Aug-1977 |
Singin' in the Rain |
Sir William Rowan Hamilton |
Mathematician |
3-Aug-1805 |
2-Sep-1865 |
Inventor of Quaternions |
James B. Harris |
Film Director |
3-Aug-1928 |
|
The Bedford Incident |
James Hetfield |
Musician |
3-Aug-1963 |
|
Metallica |
Carlo Imperato |
Actor |
3-Aug-1963 |
|
Danny Amatullo on Fame |
Ms. Jade |
Rapper |
3-Aug-1979 |
|
She's a Gangsta |
P. D. James |
Novelist |
3-Aug-1920 |
|
Adam Dalgliesh series, etc. |
Mathieu Kassovitz |
Film Director |
3-Aug-1967 |
|
La Haine |
Vera Katz |
Politician |
3-Aug-1933 |
|
Mayor of Portland Oregon, 1993-2005 |
Yvonne Kauger |
Judge |
3-Aug-1937 |
|
Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court |
James Komack |
Actor |
3-Aug-1924 |
24-Dec-1997 |
Norman Tinker on The Courtship of Eddie's Father |
Bud Krogh |
Government |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Nixon's plumbers |
Maggie Kuhn |
Activist |
3-Aug-1905 |
22-Apr-1995 |
Organizer of the Gray Panthers |
John Landis |
Film Director |
3-Aug-1950 |
|
An American Werewolf in London |
Bethel Leslie |
Actor |
3-Aug-1929 |
28-Nov-1999 |
Theater actress |
Marv Levy |
Football |
3-Aug-1925 |
|
NFL, CFL, and NCAA coach |
George L. Lilley |
Politician |
3-Aug-1859 |
21-Apr-1909 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1909 |
Evangeline Lilly |
Actor |
3-Aug-1979 |
|
Kate on Lost |
Ryan Lochte |
Swimmer |
3-Aug-1984 |
|
Olympic swimmer |
Marilyn Maxwell |
Actor |
3-Aug-1921 |
20-Mar-1972 |
Stand by for Action |
John C. McGinley |
Actor |
3-Aug-1959 |
|
Dr. Perry Cox on Scrubs |
Nate McMillan |
Basketball |
3-Aug-1964 |
|
Portland Trail Blazers head coach, 2005-12 |
Roberto Micheletti |
Head of State |
3-Aug-1943 |
|
President of Honduras, after 2009 coup |
Steven Millhauser |
Author |
3-Aug-1943 |
|
Martin Dressler |
Roscoe Mitchell |
Musician |
3-Aug-1940 |
|
Founder of The Art Ensemble of Chicago |
Christopher Murphy |
Politician |
3-Aug-1973 |
|
Congressman, Connecticut 5th |
John M. Murphy |
Politician |
3-Aug-1926 |
|
Congressman snagged in ABSCAM |
Nathan Myhrvold |
Business |
3-Aug-1959 |
|
CTO of Microsoft, 1996-2000 |
Pete Newell |
Basketball |
3-Aug-1915 |
17-Nov-2008 |
Influential NCAA coach |
Jay North |
Actor |
3-Aug-1951 |
|
Dennis the Menace |
Elisha Otis |
Inventor |
3-Aug-1811 |
8-Apr-1861 |
Invented the safety elevator |
Vernon Louis Parrington |
Historian |
3-Aug-1871 |
16-Jun-1929 |
Main Currents in American Thought |
Jo Marie Payton |
Actor |
3-Aug-1950 |
|
Family Matters |
Ernie Pyle |
Journalist |
3-Aug-1900 |
18-Apr-1945 |
Scripps-Howard war correspondent |
Jean-Pierre Raffarin |
Head of State |
3-Aug-1948 |
|
Prime Minister of France, 2002-05 |
Edward B. Rust, Jr. |
Business |
3-Aug-1950 |
|
CEO of State Farm Insurance |
Jonas Savimbi |
Military |
3-Aug-1934 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Angolan UNITA rebel |
John T. Scopes |
Educator |
3-Aug-1900 |
21-Oct-1970 |
Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial |
Gordon Scott |
Actor |
3-Aug-1926 |
30-Apr-2007 |
Played Tarzan, 1955-60 |
Martin Sheen |
Actor |
3-Aug-1940 |
|
The West Wing |
Clifford D. Simak |
Novelist |
3-Aug-1904 |
25-Apr-1988 |
City and The Visitors |
Judith A. Sprieser |
Business |
3-Aug-1953 |
|
CFO of Sara Lee, 1995-99 |
Harley O. Staggers, Sr. |
Politician |
3-Aug-1907 |
20-Aug-1991 |
Congressman from West Virginia, 1949-81 |
John C. Stennis |
Politician |
3-Aug-1901 |
23-Apr-1995 |
US Senator from Mississippi, 1947-89 |
Martha Stewart |
Business |
3-Aug-1941 |
|
Professional housekeeper, insider trader |
Max van der Stoel |
Politician |
3-Aug-1924 |
23-Apr-2011 |
Two-time Dutch Foreign Minister |
Jack Straw |
Politician |
3-Aug-1946 |
|
Leader, House of Commons, 2006-07 |
Kevin Rodney Sullivan |
Film Director |
3-Aug-1958 |
|
How Stella Got Her Groove Back |
Koichi Tanaka |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1959 |
|
Refinements in mass spectrometry |
Kenneth Tomlinson |
Business |
3-Aug-1944 |
|
Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
Leon Uris |
Novelist |
3-Aug-1924 |
21-Jun-2003 |
Battle Cry |
Diane Wakoski |
Poet |
3-Aug-1937 |
|
Coins & Coffins |
Isaiah Washington |
Actor |
3-Aug-1963 |
|
Dr. Burke on Grey's Anatomy |
George M. Whitesides |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Harvard chemist, highest H-Index |
Lambert Wilson |
Actor |
3-Aug-1958 |
|
The Merovingian |
Terry Wogan |
Radio Personality |
3-Aug-1938 |
|
BBC's Wake Up To Wogan |
William Burnham Woods |
Judge |
3-Aug-1824 |
14-May-1887 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-87 |
Walter B. Wriston |
Business |
3-Aug-1919 |
19-Jan-2005 |
CEO of Citibank, 1967-84 |